Elevation of Melgar, Tolima, Colombia

Melgar, Tolima, Colombia is 321 m (1,053 ft) above sea level.

Melgar's height from sea level is 321 metres, or 1,053 feet. GeoNames reads 325 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 323 m.

Ground within 5 km

287 m – 924 m

Mean 419 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 637 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

37th of 47

among the towns of Tolima, and 662nd of 1,000 in Colombia.

Nearest town

Carmen de Apicalá

10.8 km to the SW, at 317 m, 4 m lower.

Cross-section through Melgar

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Melgar; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 479 m at 14 km west to 755 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 580 m at 14 km north to 508 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Melgar, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 60 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Melgar

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Carmen de Apicalá	10.8 km	SW	317 m (1,040 ft)	−4 m
Icononzo	13.1 km	E	1,049 m (3,442 ft)	+728 m
Nilo (Cundinamarca)	14.1 km	NE	463 m (1,519 ft)	+142 m
Ricaurte (Cundinamarca)	16.1 km	NW	283 m (928 ft)	−38 m
Cunday	16.2 km	S	487 m (1,598 ft)	+166 m

Where Melgar is

Latitude 4.2, longitude -74.65. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Melgar's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 325 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.